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The Illinois Legislature will soon have a chance to adopt a law providing a clearer path that helps divorcing couples avoid ‘drag ‘em down, knock ‘em out’ litigation. The bills (Senate Bill 31 and House Bill 1029) are known as the Illinois Uniform Collaborative Law Act (UCLA) and set out rules around the practice of the model of dispute resolution known as Collaborative Practice. The UCLA describes the model, the obligations and expectations of those professionals and parties who voluntarily choose to engage in the form of dispute resolution. The driving force behind the proposed legislation is the Collaborative Law Institute of Illinois (CLII), an Illinois...

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The Illinois Legislature will soon have a chance to adopt a law providing a clearer path that helps divorcing couples avoid ‘drag ‘em down, knock ‘em out’ litigation.
The bills (Senate Bill 31 and House Bill 1029) are known as the Illinois Uniform...

(Springfield, IL) – A plan to increase penalties for criminal damage committed against property that honors armed service members and public servants is on deck in the Illinois House of Representatives.
The legislation, Senate Bill 2231, increases...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Technology companies on Tuesday urged fast action on a patent reform bill in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, including tackling what they termed the rising tide of costly lawsuits by "patent trolls." The...

Friday's print column--UPDATE: Jens Ludwig responded to this column and John Maki responded to Ludwig's response, and so on, rendering the bottom portion of this post a Rhubarb Patch feature. See below. The idea has a lot of common-sense appeal: ...

SPRINGFIELD --- Illinois lawmakers today opened a heated debate on whether an assault weapons ban should be approved, a discussion that featured an early clash between a sheriff's association that opposes the measure and the Chicago police and the Quinn...

Congressional lawmakers said Monday they would review AT&T Corp.'s planned purchase of DirecTV Group Inc., with a House committee already promising a hearing "to ensure that consumers’ interests are protected in an increasingly consolidated...

The chief lobbyist for the nation's small and mid-sized cable operators will tell Congress on Thursday that Comcast Corp.'s proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable threatens consumers and competition.
In testimony submitted in advance of his appearance...

Rising cable bills and programming diversity were focal points of a congressional hearing on Comcast Corp.'s proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable.
If approved, the more than $40-billion deal would combine the nation's top two cable providers and...

WASHINGTON -- The House passed the first of a pair of bills aimed at reining in what Republicans call a pattern of overreach by the executive branch under President Obama.
Democrats decried the base-pleasing measure as a political stunt. Immigration...

When Amazon.com opens a huge distribution center next year in Southeast Baltimore, consumers across the state who buy books, electronics, toys or anything else from the online seller will no longer be able to avoid the state's 6 percent sales...

Maryland's highest court ruled Wednesday that poor suspects should have access to counsel at all bail hearings, overturning the General Assembly's attempt to spare already-stretched public defenders from attending hundreds of thousands of proceedings each...

WASHINGTON — Committee approval of a sweeping Senate immigration overhaul has put pressure on the House, where Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and top leaders have been pushing a bipartisan group of lawmakers to produce its own bill.
House veterans fear...

WASHINGTON -- Federal criminal charges have been filed against one or more assailants in the attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, two law enforcement sources said Tuesday.
They declined to discuss details because the case is filed under seal...

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Lawmakers considered two competing bills Tuesday that would make Maryland among a handful of states to consider "revenge porn" a crime.
Vengefully posting naked pictures of an ex-lover online would carry jail time under the proposals weighed...

WASHINGTON — The drive to end the bulk collection of phone records by the National Security Agency is gaining strength, as Senate Democrats said Sunday that Congress will change the law to ban the practice if President Obama does not do it first.
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Jack Brooks hounded government bureaucrats, drafted articles of impeachment against President Nixon and was a strong supporter of civil rights in a congressional career that spanned four decades. But the Texas politician was perhaps best known for his...